Revision as of 08:08, 17 June 2011

Setting up a 'edge' build environment on HDD

Introduction

We will host this build environment on a HDD installed Alpine.

Boot you build environment

Boot alpine-1.9.0 on a box with a HDD.

Basic setup

Set basic environment settings.

setup-alpine

Change repository

Change repository to use 'edge'

vi /etc/apk/repositories

The file should look like this

http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/packages/main/
http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/packages/testing/
http://dl-4.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/packages/x11/

Note: You can replace 'dl-4' with some other available mirror.

Update/upgrade your system

apk update

apk upgrade

Prepare HDD

Install your system on HDD

setup-disk

Reboot your system

Update repository

Refresh the repository

apk update

Start building packages

Now you can move on to creating packages for Alpine.

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 == Basic setup ==
 Set basic environment settings.
- setup-alpine
+{{Cmd|setup-alpine}}
 == Change repository ==
 Change repository to use 'edge'
- vi /etc/apk/repositories
+{{Cmd|vi /etc/apk/repositories}}
 The file should look like this
 <PRE>
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 Update/upgrade your system
- apk update
+{{Cmd|apk update}}
- apk upgrade
+{{Cmd|apk upgrade}}
 == Prepare HDD ==
 Install your system on HDD
- setup-disk
+{{Cmd|setup-disk}}
 Reboot your system
 == Update repository ==
 Refresh the repository
- apk update
+{{Cmd|apk update}}
 == Start building packages ==
 Now you can move on to [[Creating_an_Alpine_package|creating packages for Alpine.]]